Hi,

I would like to avoid web requests for persons biography data when fetching the movie data including the casts data.

After checking the API, I think the only way to get the biography/birthday etc. data for a person is to do this:

1. get movie informations --> http://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/11?api_key=key&language=language&append_to_response=casts,images
2. for all person_id in cast-data get http://api.themoviedb.org/3/movie/person_id

Do you like the idea to change/append the api to include the person-data, maye by appending a "persons" parameter to append_to_response?

Maybe to get a result something like that?

{"cast_id":3,"character":"Luke Skywalker","credit_id":"52fe420dc3a36847f8000441","id":2,"name":"Mark Hamill","order":0,"profile_path":"/zUXHs0t0rhRNg7rD1pQm09KXAKP.jpg", "person":{"adult":false,"also_known_as":["Mark Hamil","Mark Richard Hamill"],"biography":"From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.\n\nMark Richard Hamill (born September 25, 1951) is an American actor, voice artist, producer, director, and writer. Hamill is best known for his role as Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars trilogy and also well known for voice-acting characters such as the Joker in various animated series, animated films and video games, beginning with Batman: The Animated Series, the Skeleton king in Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!, Fire Lord Ozai in Avatar: The Last Airbender, Master Eraqus in Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, Skips in Regular Show, and Senator Stampington on Metalocalypse.\n\nDescription above from the Wikipedia article Mark Hamill, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia .","birthday":"1951-09-25","deathday":"","homepage":"","id":2,"imdb_id":"nm0000434","name":"Mark Hamill","place_of_birth":"Concord, California, USA","popularity":21.38462,"profile_path":"/zUXHs0t0rhRNg7rD1pQm09KXAKP.jpg"}}

Including the person data (by optional parameter) for a movie-id-query would save lots of web requestings.

But maybe there is already such an option and I didn't find it in the API reference?

Greetings from Germany